They dont like the truth, so they summarily dismiss it, he says. They say its a government takeover of health care  a big lie. Just like Goebbels. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually people believe it. Like blood libel, he said, pounding his fist on the dais.

Thats the same kind of thing. The Germans said enough about the Jews and the people believed it and you had the Holocaust. You tell a lie over and over again. And weve heard it on this floor  government takeover of health care. 

... There is no government takeover, he said.

Cohens reference to blood libel follows former Alaska governor Sarah Palins use of the term to describe attacks on her from left-leaning pundits after the Tucson massacre earlier this month.

ABC News Jonathan Karl reports: The newfound civility didnt last long. Political rhetoric in Congress doesnt get much nastier than the words of one House Democrat during the debate on repealing the health care law.

In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust to attack Republicans on health care and compared rhetoric on the issue to the work of infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

They say its a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels, Cohen said. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. Thats the same kind of thing. And Congressman Cohen didnt stop there.

The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed itbelieved it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover, Cohen said.
Cohen made his comments late last night, but they have attracted no attention because his speech was made to a virtually empty House chamber with no reporters around to watch.

The right needs to come back HARD on this. Cohen’s outburst means one of two things. Either Obama has lost control of his party members in congress as they have apparently completely disregarded his call for civility, or bambi’s speech was given with a tacit nod and a wink knowing that he wasn’t really serious. Well Gibbs, which is it?

On the day of the opening of the new congress he gave a one minute speech to complain about the reading of the constitution.

The moron wants to talk about nazis but doesn't have the manhood to acknowledge that the nazis learned their tactics from 1920s American progressives like Bernays, Lippman and others. Goebbels took pride in his copy of "Crystallizing public opinion" by Edward Bernays.

Goebbels was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me.

Edward Bernays (1965)

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posted on 01/20/2011 6:24:31 AM PST
by cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))

This Steve Cohen dipshit sure is getting more than his share of airtime for his asshat comments.

Another all-too-common pulpy, brainwashed little wimp, saturated in his own ignorance and arrogance, who couldn't beat his way out of a wet paper bag. Yet another living example of how far our Republic has fallen.

This guy should be sanctioned and forced to make an apology. We must use their rules against them. Either the Left will be embarrassed or they will stand up for this guy by demanding free speech rights.
Either way, we win. The Left will tire of being forced to live up to their own standards or they will be forced to support free speech and we will keep them to that standard.

I wish something could be done about the main stream media. They are completely biased but as long as it suits the leftists/socuialists/communists nothing is said. Yet Fox News is constantly being attacked because it is more balanced.

Classic case of Marxist argument. Accuse others of what you do (or are). When or if the Republican party becomes the socialist workers party and openly advocates for goverment take over of health care then they can be compared to NAZIs...just like what the socialist Dems are doing.

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posted on 01/20/2011 6:34:08 AM PST
by Durus
(The distance between us has grown, and I struggle to quantify it. Windage adjustments are done.)

Somebody needs to ask Cohen what he’d call it if a President (say someone like Obama) for months told the nation the insurance mandate was decidedly *not* a tax, and then after the healthcare bill passed, argued forcefully in court that the insurance mandate was constitutional because it definitely *was* a tax.

Would like a Repub to step up; not just per Media response; but read into Congressional Record; just which Party caters to what was known as Germany's National Socialist Party MO. Shut these people up or better; make formal record, the truth of their lies.

Of course, 'these folks' pay no attention to that which they put forth per required 'civil dictums'. They know this is a 'silencing' MO for their opposition and certainly not meant to silence the Leftist perps themselves. . .

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posted on 01/20/2011 6:38:09 AM PST
by cricket
(Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .Obama, not made in the USA either.. .)

Dem. Rep. Steve Cohen (TN)  I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that the parties have differences. But if you want change, you want the Democratic Party. Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, um, that the parties have differences, but if you want Change, but if you want change, you want the Democratic party, uh, Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus who our, uh, minister prayed about, uh, Pontius Pilate was a governor.

There are many Democrats and at least a few Republicans on Capitol Hill who say they’re glad former President George W. Bush is no longer in office, but Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) this week went one step further: He thanked the Almighty for it.

Cohen took to the House floor on Tuesday, where he delivered remarks titled “Thank God Bush is Gone.”

Cohen blamed the 43rd president for the financial crisis, calling him “Hoover George Bush,” after former president Herbert Hoover.

“Now all [people] can say is Bush is gone,” Cohen said, “Nobody can defend him.”

The lawmaker took a few more swipes at the former president over tax cuts and the Iraq war before concluding, “Now all they can say is that he’s gone. Thank God he’s gone.

Won’t happen. Bohener won’t do it to uncivil and petty. The big thing that comes out of this is it is all over the airways in Memphis, and will be on the evening talk show...BTW start sending it to RUSH! One of us could get through.

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posted on 01/20/2011 6:52:45 AM PST
by GailA
(2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)

With cohen that’s the only kind he does. He used the Giffords shooting to say he’s going to get a handgun permit. Forgetting he has to do the safety course, the FBI & TBI background checks and that takes about 3 months, and prove he’s a US Citizen. You can’t snap your fingers and get one, not even if you are a congresscritter.

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posted on 01/20/2011 7:02:02 AM PST
by GailA
(2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)

In my opinion, the Kapos all reside on the Left and in this Regime starting with their God, Soros. All Goebbel’s-style propaganda flows out of this Regime and morons like this one. Talking about the pot calling the kettle what?

How can you make lies and false statements about a bill and subsequent law, which nobody knows what's in it?

If they voted on a bill they never read, how can they comment on it whatsoever? If they do claim it's a good bill, ask them to outline the ten largest cost aspects of the law and how they benefit the taxpayer?

Clinton tactics. You accuse your opponent of what you are doing. You do it with outrage and anger. This insulates you from being asked about your position or comments on any related subject or matter. The media and left fall for it every time.

It is pretty sickening to have a Jewish liberal accuse his political adversaries of using Nazi tactics, when those tactics themselves were derived from Progressive propaganda techniques. Ironically, one of them was to accuse your enemies of what you yourself are doing.

As a practical matter, ObamaCare is a Federal government takeover of health care. It mandates coverage - enforced by the Federal government. It creates dozens of new government bureaucracies that will control coverages, pricing, and delivery systems through the power to issue rules and regulations as they see fit. The purpose is to drive private insurers out of business - and it will, without a doubt - because it destroys their business model.

When companies are legally enjoined from using actuarial science to set insurance rates, or from offering different tiers of coverage based upon both science and experience - they are no longer in the "insurance" business. Unless we overturn ObamaCare, we will be left with only government "insurance", and those who accuse Republicans of lying about it are themselves guilty of dissembling.

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posted on 01/20/2011 7:30:03 AM PST
by andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)

If there were only a few idiots like this one we might stand a chance. The fact that these nuts are being elected in a conservative state is reason to believe that America is totally and utterly $$%&$*&^%!

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posted on 01/20/2011 7:40:00 AM PST
by Soothesayer
(smallpox is not a person)

Perhaps the Leftists think the Nazis were bad because they outlawed the killing of Aryan babies. If they allowed for more baby killing then the Nazis would be wonderful defenders of freedom.

This is all assuming that the leftists have a coherent “moral code” beyond their base feral drive. It is still more likely that these THINGS will say, do, and even believe whatever they need to feed off their enemies, support their own selfish agenda, and consume the host in the process.

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posted on 01/20/2011 7:46:40 AM PST
by Soothesayer
(smallpox is not a person)

That and downgrading the quality and availability of medical care for the majority of Americans, and destroying the medical profession and other health care professions in the process.

This is not the first time that Cohen has gone on an outrageous rant on the House floor. But this comes on the heels of the 'Rats' innuendos about the "tone of the political debate" contributing to the recent Tucson shootings.

Cohen is just as off-the-wall as several other 'Rat colleagues in the House when it comes to grossly inappropriate rhetoric. Unfortunately, unlike the since departed Allan Grayson (for example), he was re-elected in November.

The time to come back hard on this was 25 seconds after this stupid little commie pr*ck made the statements on the House floor. Every Republican in the place should have stood up and shouted the weasel down.

Interesting isn’t it...an International Socialist calling his opposition National Socialists.

“...Either Obama has lost control of his party members in congress...”

Flunkies and hacks would be a better description...

“...or bambis speech was given with a tacit nod and a wink knowing that he wasnt really serious...”

You are most likely spot-on there, Joe.

And if so, that’s fine.

Like an earlier article of a few days ago stated...I don’t want Civil Discourse either.

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